I find that totally depressing after the thread about recycling earlier.
I have been recycling ever since Adam was a lad having been brought up by my gradparents who went through 2 ww. and knew all about thrift and saving stuff. Even now I scrape every last bit of butter off the wrapper as my gran did.
I am just getting fed-up of being nagged to do what has been 2nd nature all my life.
Sorry to moan, but I am fed up. I do not like to get on a soap box and feel that this is becoming something I will ignore for now.
I thought the video was very good...an excellent use of knitting!
I have been recycling since I was a child and encourage everyone else that I know to do the same. Unfortunately not everyone else does. We have wheelie bins where I live 1 for rubbish 1 for paper and 1 for glass/cans and bags for garden clippings. It’s amazing how many people do not use their recycling facilities. The messages are targeted not at those who do recycle but at those who don’t.
I recycle as much as I possibly can. What really pee’s me off in the whole plastic recycling debate is that we’re being encouraged to reuse our bags or have our own sturdy shopping bags, however supermarkets package all their food in loads of plastic, the majority of which still can’t be recycled. There is no need to wrap fruit and veg in layers of polystyrene and plastic, bring back brown paper bags.
M&S;now charge for carrier bags and they are the worst wrapping culprits ever. In Germany the shoppers retaliated and once they had paid for their goods, they took off all the unnecessary wrapping and left it on the ends of the checkouts. I really wish I was bold enough to do that.
What a good idea...leave all the waste at the supermarket!! It drives me potty when I’m unpacking my bags getting rid of it all. Some goes to recyling but stuff like biscuit/crisp wrappers. I can see my bin filling up and up!
I’ve stopped buying veg from the supermarket partly because of the packaging. I now get an organic box that comes with minimal pakaging and is recycled every week. I’d love to recycle properly but at the moment my areas recycling program is not good. I was quite excited to get a leaflet through the door yesterday about a new system for our area that looks pretty good, here’s hoping!
Regarding their fifth point - it’s worth noting that a lot of appliances (pretty much anything other than simple lights - the kind that don’t have a transformer at the plug or in the power lead) use a little bit of energy when they are turned off at the switch on the appliance, but on at the switch at the wall. This can add up to up to 15% of your electricity bill! The worst offenders are chargers, as they point out, so just making sure you unplug or switch off at the wall as appropriate will save a bit, and if you want to save a bit more have a think about other electrical things you can conveniently switch off at the wall.
well, if all of society had been as thrifty as Gill we wouldn’t have this problem!
I like this
In Germany the shoppers retaliated and once they had paid for their goods, they took off all the unnecessary wrapping and left it on the ends of the checkouts. I
wish I had the nerve too!!
I get most of my veg from a van that comes round and he puts the stuff in brown paper bags, and if you get a lot, which I do, in a cardboard tray, which goes for recycling too.
Yes I agree with the whole recycling point - irritating as it can be sometimes - I have an extra bin in my kitchen for plastic bottles which I then take to the local Tesco to bung in their recycle bins, and earn a fwe points on it too, but the bin quckly fills up and if I not going to Tesco I don’t really see the point in making a special trip (not very eco friendly eh?!) and then the bin overflows. Oh what’s a poor little greeny to do! I remember years ago (15-20!) going shopping with my mum, and between us we may have had 8 large bags, then some spotty little oik in BHS or somewhere is trying to put a key ring in a bag the size of a tent! Despite my protestations he “had to” due to “company policy”.. Rot. I got it out of the bag he had put it in and straight into one of my own bags and shoved the large carrier he had back on the counter - but it shows that SOME of us were doing it years ago with much effort put in!!!
Good link but the tune could have been better we recycle as much as possible and I have used public transport most of my adult life too, and now we have a wee car we hardly use it. I want a sheep for our dratted lawns cos that would save some energy and also provide me with yarn
oh yes but what about all the poo you’d have to get rid of Montaffera?
Would it be worth it? Although it could be good for your Roses!
Roses?? US??!!! I used to muck out horses back in my teens, a sheep would be ok I think. Better than a dog’s dirt anyway or a cat’s but good point, I hadn’t thought that far.
I haven’t had the pleasure of mucking out horses (!) but I used to work at a place where our office block was opposite one of the factory blocks - making fertiliser! Yuk. And there was I thinking phew at least u not got to go into the smelly bit, Leigh, when they announce they want me to start doing the inventory of the drugs they produced! Lucky hey! It stank in there. Couldn’t be in there more than about 15-20 minutes without getting a cracking headache!
I had to do that every week for the year I worked there. 20 years ago and I still remember what it looked (and smelled) like!
Yuk indeedy Leigh, I’m glad you didn’t work there more than a year… could have been a Jeckell and Hyde thing going on if you’d breathed in much more, do you think?
Horse’s poo is okish, they are veggies so it smells ‘better’ if that makes sense?! I used to help out at the Riding for the Disabled near Stirling as my friend was potty about horses and I thought they were quite nice. We got to take them out after their classes to give them a good trot through the woods and things. Over a big hill on our bikes to get to the stables, then mucking out the horses and grooming them, tacking them up, taking them out with the disabled riders, taking them out through the woods with us (or if it was raining around a big barn with moderate jumps) then back into their stable for nosh and usually another wee groom and then over that bleeding hill again at full pelt to get home for tea. Not a bad way to spend your weekends/summer hols!
we recycle as much as possible and I have used public transport most of my adult life too, and now we have a wee car we hardly use it. I want a sheep for our dratted lawns cos that would save some energy and also provide me with yarn 
or a cat’s 
but good point, I hadn’t thought that far.
